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Summarized by Kent Larsen
Hinckley Speech To National Press Club Today
Pres. Hinckley speech to D.C. press club will go live on Net
Deseret News 6Mar00 N1
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Gordon B. Hinckley is scheduled to
speak to the National Press Club today at 1 p.m. EST on his new book,
"Standing for Something." The long-planned speech will be available
live over the radio, including Internet radio, and the previously
written text of the speech will be available on the Church's website
soon after the speech begins.
Rights to broadcast National Press Club speeches on radio and TV
below to National Public Radio and to the C-SPAN cable network. NPR
affiliate KUER, the University of Utah's station, will carry the
speech live and broadcast it over the Internet using RealAudio. See
http://www.kuer.org/spotlight/pressclub2.html for connection
information. Other NPR stations could also carry the broadcast.
As of 10 a.m. this morning, C-span had not indicated that it would
carry President Hinckley's remarks. Should it decide to do so, the
remarks may also be available on the Internet through Real Audio at
http://www.c-span.org/watch/.
The LDS Church has informed the press that it will release the text
of President Hinckley's remarks on its website simultaneously with
the begining of the speech at 1 p.m. EST. The Church's website is
located at
http://www.lds.org/.
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